Wallacean Drongo

SCI Name:  Dicrurus densus
Protonym:  Edolius densus Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.352
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Dicruridae / Dicrurus
Taxonomy Code:  waldro1
Type Locality:  Timor.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

DICRURUS
(Dicruridae; † Balicassiao D. balicassius) Gr. δικρος dikros  forked; ουρα oura  tail; "125. DRONGO, Dicrurus.  Lanius, Corvus, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec couvert de soies à la base, robuste; mandibule supérieure un peu carénée en dessus, échancrée et crochue vers le bout; l'inférieure aiguë et retroussée à la pointe. — Queue fourchue. — Rectrices 10.   Esp. Balicasse. — Fingah. — Drongo, Buff.  ...  Dicrurus [δικρους, furcatus, ουρα, cauda]." (Vieillot 1816); "Dicrurus Vieillot, 1816 (April 14), Analyse, p. 41.  Type, by subsequent designation, ["Balicasse" of de Buffon =] Corvus balicassius Linnaeus (G. R. Gray, 1841, List Gen. Birds, ed. 2, p. 47)." (Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 138).   
Var. Dicruratus (probably an involuntary lapsus or portmanteau of specific combination Dicrurus longicaudatus Hay, 1868), Dicrourus, Dicturus (OD per Martin Schneider).   
Synon. Balicassius, Bhringa, Bhuchanga, Bonaparteis, Chaptia, Chibia, Cometes, Criniger,  Dicrachibia, Dicranostreptus, Dicruropsis, Dissemuroides, Dissemuropsis, Dissemurulus, Dissemurus, Drongo, Drongus, Drymonax, Edolius, Edoliuta, Entomoletes, Melisseus, Musicus, Notochibia, Prepopterus, Trichometopus.
• (Dicruridae; syn. Dicrurus † Black Drongo D. macrocercus) "Dicrurus (Auct)  Bhuchanga." (Hodgson 1841); "Dicrurus Hodgson, 1841, Journal Asiatic Soc. Bengal, X (1), (no. 109), p. 29.  Classical replacement name for Bhuchanga Hodgson, a local substantive name considered inappropriate by some." (JAJ 2020) (see Alcopus).

densus
L. densus  thick, dense.

SUBSPECIES

Wallacean Drongo (Lombok)
SCI Name: Dicrurus densus vicinus
vicinus
L. vicinus  very near  < vicus  town district, street.

Wallacean Drongo (Flores)
SCI Name: Dicrurus densus bimaensis
bimaensis
Bima, Sumbawa, Indonesia.

Wallacean Drongo (Sumba)
SCI Name: Dicrurus densus sumbae
sumbae / sumbaensis / sumbanus
Sumba I., Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.

Wallacean Drongo (Timor)
SCI Name: Dicrurus densus densus
densus
L. densus  thick, dense.

Wallacean Drongo (Tanimbar)
SCI Name: Dicrurus densus kuehni
kuehni
Heinrich Kühn (1860-1906) German explorer, collector in the East Indies (syn. Aplonis minor, syn. Caprimulgus macrurus schlegelii, syn. Coracina novaehollandiae melanops, subsp. Cyornis hyacinthinus, subsp. Dicaeum celebicum, subsp. Dicrurus densus, syn. Eos rubra, subsp. Erythropitta macklotii, subsp. Gerygone dorsalis, subsp. Hypotaenidia torquata, Myzomela, subsp. Pachycephala griseonota, syn. Tyto alba delicatula, subsp. Xanthotis polygrammus, Zosterops) (see audacis).

Wallacean Drongo (Kai)
SCI Name: Dicrurus densus megalornis
megalornis
Gr. μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē  great; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird.